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Quaestio : Was the Church a positive force in Medieval Europe ? Nunc Agenda : Read and examine the Infographic on page 227 in the textbook and answer the questions on your sheet. . Churches & Cathedrals. Run by Priest Run by Bishop. Monks & Monasteries.
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Quaestio: Was the Church a positive force in Medieval Europe?Nunc Agenda: Read and examine the Infographicon page 227 in the textbook and answer the questions on your sheet.
Churches & Cathedrals • Run by Priest • Run by Bishop
Monks & Monasteries • Monks = members of a religious community who devote their lives to prayer, fasting, and knowledge, living in a monastery • Followed strict rules of discipline and obedience to their abbot, or leader • Copied religious and secular texts by hand to preserve knowledge
REMINDERBalance of Power • Three groups competing for power during Middle Ages: • Monarchs Nobles The Church
Vocab Clarified • President • Presidency • Presidential • Pope • Papacy • Papal
Power of the Church • Popes had secular (non-religious) power • Papal Supremacy = Pope has control over all religious and secular leaders • Going to church was a requirement for getting to heaven • Popes had the power to excommunicate those who disobeyed them, banning them from the church, and dooming them to hell
Power of the Church • Popes had secular (non-religious) power
Holy Roman Empire • 700s- Charlemagne’s Empire (included France and Germany) broke into separate states • 962- German King Otto I helped the Pope fight his enemies • Pope crowned Otto HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (abbr. HRE)
Investiture Controversy • Pope Gregory VII vs King Henry IV of Germany …also Holy Roman Emperor
Investiture Controversy • Pope Gregory VII banned lay investiture- practice of having secular ruler chose bishops, he said only the Pope has that power • HRE Henry IV argued that bishops were his vassals since he gave them land, so he should have the power • 1076- Gregory excommunicated Henry and planned to crown a new HRE! • 1077- Gregory begged forgiveness from the Pope and the Pope had to forgive him • Concordat of Worms- agreement that said Popes chose bishops but Emperors grant them land
Pensa • READ Chapter 8 Section 3 • Complete the worksheet “The Crusades and the Wider World”